The fugitive tycoon Asil Nadir has instructed lawyers in a fresh attempt to
clear a path for his return to Britain, The Times has learnt.

Mr Nadir, 69, who was a Conservative Party donor, fled to northern Cyprus in
1993 to avoid a £34 million fraud trial centred on the collapse of his Polly
Peck business empire. His decision to abscond forced the resignation of
Michael Mates, a junior minister in John Major’s Government, and provoked a
political scandal.

Mr Nadir, who now runs a media company in northern Cyprus, wants to return to
argue that there was a grave